The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-11-10
FARM AND FIRESIDE.


Select small trees for transplant
ing.
An English farmer says the liquid
manure cart is the best rent payer.
Character is better fortune than
hundred millions. and the child ought
to be taught that great truth. Western
Rural.
"A Good Soup: A knuckle of veal
stewed in milk, with rice, very deli
cately favored with lemon peel, makes
a nourishing broth when beef tea is dis
liked. -IDdianapolis Sentinel.
-ButtermiIk Pie: One cup butter
milk, one cup sugar, six tablespoonful
butter, six tablespoonfuls flour. Flavor
to taste.-GOod Cheer.
Education, intelligence, persever-
ance and business ability, will win
every time; and these are just as useful,
and of just as much advantage to the
farmer, as to the tradesman or pro-
feSsiOnal man.
Beef Soup: Four pounds of shin
of beef, four quarts of water, six onions,
four carrots, two turnips. all chopped
fine; pepper and salt. Put the meat to
boil, and at the end of four hours add
the vegetables and cook one hour
longer. boston Budget.
White Cake: The whites of eight
eggs, one cup butter, one cup sweet
milk, four cups flour, two cups sugar,
two teaspoons baking powder, and
flavor with lemon. For the icing. the
whites of two eggs and one and one
half cups sugar. Christian Union. i
To protect trees from the girdling
of mice, clear away the earth at the
base. wrap a piece of twO-ply tarred
paper around the tree and replace the
earth. For peach trees ordinary thick
pasteboard is better, Us coal tar or any
of the products of petroleum is some
times injurious. Indianapolis Journal.
Excellent Rolls: Take three pints
of warm water in which some peeled
Irish potatoes have been boiled, strain
your water, add a tablespoonful OF
butter or lard, one teacupful of warm
yeast; thicken it with flour to make a
dough. Let it stand to rise, then work
into rolls. Let it stand to rise fifteen
or twenty minutes, then bake about
three-qnarters of IN hour. You can
make this into loaves, us it is 4 good
bread recipe. Boston Budget.
Fowls that are confined in yards
and kept warm in winter will give bet
ter results the entire year than when
they are allowed to roam ut will. The
hens that have free range Will some
times lay more eggs in summer than
will those that are confined, but the
hens that are properly cared for during
the cold season will lay ut time when
the highest prices for eggs are usually
obtained. Louis Republican.
Cream Candy: Four cups of white
granulated sugar, two cups of water,
three-fourths OF Il cup of vinegar, one
cup of cream or rich milk. piece OF
butter the size of an egg, two teaspoon
fuls of vanilla or any flavoring, and a
pinch of soda. Put thc,vinegar, sugar,
water and butter, in the pan, then the
milk in which has been dissolved the
soda; this will pr..vent the milk curd-
ling. Let it boil until it cracks in
water, '.hen pull very white. House
hoLI.
The special foods for causing hens
TO lay are secret preparations, but the
following is considered Il good formula:
Two pounds each of bone, linseed cake,
dried meat. oats and oyster shells, all
finely ground; one ounce sulphur, two
ounces red pepper, four ounces each of
common salt and copperas, and one
ounce of bread soda Mix the whole
thoroughly, and allow a tablespoonful
three times week to each fowl A.
he cost of these substan ces will be but
little. quite Il large quantity can be made
at one time.-IniiGaGDo'i as Journal.